Recent content by JBOB

Good morning, I am a new attending and am trying to navigate how to go about applying for jobs while currently employed. Would you all discuss plans to apply for new jobs with your employer first, or wait until after you have another job offer? I am really just worried about burning bridges and...

I am a new attending who recently started working out of fellowship. Due to personal goals, I am now looking to move locations, but I am concerned about seeming flaky if I leave this position too soon. Is there a safe amount of time before it wouldn't seem unreasonable to start looking for new...

This depends entirely on the practice setting. If you are working in a busy trauma center, you will be dealing with life or death situations on a regular basis. If you are in an ASC, not so much. Regardless, every anesthesiologists should feel competent dealing with an emergency, otherwise they...

I'm not sure I agree with your thinking on this. I understand that in an experienced provider's hands, the chances of having a serious airway issue in a patient who looks like this is extremely low, maybe one in 10,000. But... If you're doing thousands of cases a year, it could happen. And when...

Anybody placing axillary central lines with ultrasound?

Any chance someone pushed through the norepi line or gave a bunch of neo? Might explain a sudden increase in BP w/ reflex brady.

I have been hearing hints from some program directors on the interview trail that SF Match may delay the rank submission/match date due to COVID issues. Anyone else have info about this?

How many interviews are people generally going on?

June. Most of us study throughout the year with question banks and such, there is no dedicated time off to study.

Jumping on to this question, does anyone know how important it is to have extracurriculars? I honestly have not done much of anything in residency other than work/non-academic stuff.

Perhaps, but you certainly don't have any real responsibility or authority working as a waitress, construction worker, or most of the other jobs that people get between college/med school. Maybe what you're noticing is more of an age related issue.

So, in your mind, working in construction or as a waitress is "adulting", but working 60-80hrs a week as a resident is not?

Ask again once our new monitors don't read "VTACH" every time a pt moves, then we can talk.

Does not seem great from a patient experience perspective to me, if I were intubated I would prefer to not have the tube in while awake for any longer than is necessary.

Just curious, is there a physician in PACU that evaluates the pt before extubation? Do they place an "extubate" order in the chart or something of that nature?